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Agitating farmers have no reasons to be optimistic of a favourable verdict in their favour when the Supreme Court will hear on January 11, a batch of pleas challenging the new farm laws as well as the issues related to the ongoing farmers’ protest.

That the government of India has decided to vaccinate the health professionals and front line workers is a welcome step. Over 700 doctors and many more health workers died during the fight against COVID. Since the health workers are at a high risk they need to be vaccinated on priority. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has cleared the use of Covidshield vaccine by Oxford - Astra Zeneca for use in India. The Covaxin vaccine by Biotech India has been kept as a backup.

Vasco, Goa: Another late goal saved the day for Goa as they managed to grab a point in a hard-fought 1-1 draw against East Bengal at the Tilak Maidan Stadium, Vasco on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Hockey India on Wednesday said it is eagerly awaiting to host Junior Men’s World Cup is again later this year.

Bambolim, Goa: As Kerala Blasters prepare to take on Odisha, the one thing on coach Kibu Vicuna's mind will be how to get his team to score more goals in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, Bambolim on Thursday.

AS Judge Vanessa Baraitser started to deliver her ruling in the Old Bailey’s number two court on Monday nothing felt right. Proceedings started late. Julian Assange slumped in the dock, surrounded by bullet-proof glass, his clothes flapping slightly around his diminished frame. They Don’t Extradite Assange campaign had decided against a rally outside the court building because of the risk of spreading Covid-19. The very air tasted sour.

After trudging for 45 years in the post independence period, the pace of economic growth gained suddenly. Most people attribute it to the wafting winds of the Global economic concepts through India. Many credit it to compulsions that forced the Narsimha Rao government to open doors of the restrictive Indian economic structure for participation by the private sector. Few would grant credit to the Harshad Mehta scandal of 1992 as the new path indicator to many to make their millions in shortest time. Mehta taught the easiest method for raising capital to new adventurers. Gone were old methods of borrowing the needed capital from financing institutes that entailed returns with interests. Mehta showed them a new method of floating public issues to raise needed capital without assuring returns or interests by way of dividends. Rs. 93000 crore worth of capital was raised in 1993 through public issues. The public issues forms were available even at pan shops.

The Opposition is looking for words to condemn the Central Vista, which got the Supreme Court’s nod January 5, 2020. So far, they have found ‘travesty’ and ‘misplaced priority’ and a couple of others like “saddened” and “colossal waste of public money.” Somehow, the opprobrium and excoriation is also against the Supreme Court for passing a “whimsical autocrat’s” daydream.

India underwent two phases of agriculture reforms since independence. In 1960’s, it launched Green Revolution to increase productivity of agriculture produces. In the second phase, it introduced three farm bills in September 2020 to dismantle the restrictive agriculture marketing. The main aim is to protect the poor and small landholding farmers through corporatization from licensed agents.

While the entire saffron brigade from Delhi to Calcutta has suddenly become conscious of the existence of Rabindranath Tagore, image of the Bengali culture and ethos, the public face of Hindu culturism Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have been striving hard to exploit the legacy of greatest Bengali synagogue and use it for their electoral success.